Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

This is epic: :)

From : https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/kurdyuk...

This code draws the current moon phase to the console. So if you’re a lycanthrope, you can monitor the phase of the moon.

#include <time.h> #include <stdio.h>

        a,b=44,x,
     y,z;main()  {!a
   ?a=2551443,x=    -b
  ,y=2-b,z=((time     (
 0)-592531)%a<<9)/     a
 :putchar(++x>=a?x     =
 -b,y+=4,10:x<0?x=     x
 *x+y*y<b*b?a=1-x,     -
  1:x+1,32:"#."[(     x
   <a*(~z&255)>>    8)
     ^z>>8]),y>  b?0
        :main();}

https://www.ioccc.org/2024/stedolan/index.html

Reading last years entries, this image decompression oneliner outputs its own logo when passed the hash of its source code?! Pretty neat.

Thank you Barry Kerchival, My C programming teacher for sharing obfuscated code, and showing us utter abuse of the C pre-processor. "This does not do what you think it does."

"Recalcitrant code."

For an obfuscation comp, I love the fact they explicitly refer to and do not rewrite "index.html web pages for each winning entry".

> Increased submission quantity and quality

So everybody just LLM'd this, right?

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